Apostate Deacon

Tyler Edlin's Brush Sauce monthly challenge for the March 2022. This month's prompt was to create and illustration or concept that would fit the Elden Ring/ Dark Souls game genre. Gothic Fantasy Horror. I chose to lean into the religious themes typically surrounding Gothic architecture and went for this stained glass window idea. I wanted a large boss that was trapped in this stained glass window and when the player would interact with it my boss would step out of the window and seize the player by the throat and monologue about he was finally free from his purgatory. Additionally I imagined he would use a podium with some religious book and tamp it into the ground for closed range attacks. His final stage would be him ditching his shield and duplicating it making himself and the player trapped inside an octagon of windows to which the boss would run into one window and out another making for a very anxious final fight.